Through 3/28 only, the Starwood Preferred Guest® Business Credit Card from American Express is offering 35K points for spending $7K within 3 months

This limited time offer has a signup bonus that is 40% richer than the standard offer! After completing the $7K in spend you’ll have at least 42K Starpoints. That’s equal to 126K Marriott points!

Using Starpoints with Starwood:

Some examples of airline awards that you can redeem with Starpoints can be found in this post, but this post will discuss the background information about the primary methods that you can use to redeem Starpoints.

First off, some basics:

Points from both Starwood consumer and business AMEX cards are deposited directly into your Starwood loyalty account which can be tracked on SPG.com. You do not lose your points if you cancel your card like you would with American Express Membership Rewards, Chase Ultimate Rewards points, or Citibank ThankYou points as they are stored with the loyalty program and not with the credit card company.

You do need to maintain activity in your Starwood account every 18 months to keep it active, though Starwood is very good about reactivating accounts that have been closed due to inactivity. Just call and ask nicely.

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1. Hotel award nights with no blackouts or capacity controls.

If a standard room is for sale you can use points to book it:

2. Deluxe hotel rooms and suites.

Starwood doesn’t allow you to book premium rooms with points online. However you can call Starwood to redeem points for deluxe rooms and suites.

Deluxe rooms with better views may only cost an extra 1K Starpoints, so it’s always worth calling about them. Sometimes it can look like a hotel has no point rooms available, but you can call and pay a small premium to book an award night with an upgraded room.

If you book 5 consecutive hotel award nights at category 3-7 hotels then the 5th night will be free:

SLS Suite Dining Room as the Category 6 SLS Hotel in Los Angeles:

For example:

5 nights at the category 7 blinged out S. Regis Bal Harbour is 120,000 points, still that’s not a bad value when you consider that the cheapest rooms during peak season go for more than $1,000 plus tax per night.

Stretch your points when reserving a standard room, upgraded room, or suite by using cash and points:

Unlike regular rooms, these cash and points room awards are capacity controlled. Unfortunately you will need to call to book upgrades rooms and suites with cash and points, and not all reps will know how to do that.

5. Nights and Flights allow you to combine a 5 night hotel stay and get 50,000 miles for less than the cost of booking a 5 night stay and transferring points separately:

In other words you can stay 5 nights at a category 4 hotel like the Sheraton Big Island of Hawaii or Westin Fort Lauderdale Beach Resort and get 50,000 miles transferred into the airline of your choice for just 70,000 Starpoints. When done separately that 5 night stay would cost 40,000 Starpoints and the airline transfer would cost 40,000 Starpoints, so this award saves 10K points.

Or spend 5 nights at a category 3 hotel like the Wanderlust Singapore and get 50,000 miles transferred into the airline of your choice for just 60,000 Starpoints. When done separately that 5 night stay would cost 28,000 Starpoints and the airline transfer would cost 40,000 Starpoints, so this award saves 8K points.

Sing the nation anthem at a ballgame, watch the game from a suite, etc. Starwood will even cater their suite with kosher food upon request with no additional charge! People have done that at the US Open, Cubs, Knicks, Rangers, and more games.

A friend invited me and several other DDF members to the SPG suite at Wrigley Field for a Cubs-Yankees game:

Airlines also often incentivize transfers, Air Canada Aeroplan, American, Alaska, British Airways, Cathay Pacific, United, and others have made offers like that.

Curious about the Starwood transfer options and ratios? Here they are!

With so may different airlines to transfer to, it’s just a matter of figuring out which one has the lowest rates to where you want to go. I’ve separated them by alliance so you can know which airlines are partners and will therefore let you book award travel on partner airlines. Of course airlines also have lots of non-alliance partners, but by definition they are partners with all airlines in the same alliance.

In parenthesis you can see if American Express Membership Rewards (MR), Chase Ultimate Rewards (UR), or Citibank Thank You (TY) points transfers to the airline as well. If no other program can transfer points to that airline it will say not applicable (NA)

For example with 90K Starpoints or 270K Marriott Rewards points you will get a 7 night hotel stay at Marriott category 1-5 properties and 132K miles if you choose to transfer the miles to United. In Q4 2016 and 2017United even sweetened that offer with a 25% transfer bonus and it’s likely that we’ll see that return in the future.

If you transfer 90K Starpoints or 270K Marriott Rewards points you can also get a 7 night hotel stay at Marriott category 1-5 properties and 120K miles with Aeromexico, Air Canada, Alaska Airlines, American Airlines, British Airways, Copa Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Frontier Airlines, GOL/Varig, Hawaiian Airlines, Iberia Airlines, or Virgin Atlantic. Currently, British Airways is offering a 35% transfer bonus, so 90K Starpoints will transfer into a week in a Marriott hotel plus 162K Avios!

The miles will post within a few days of the transfer, regardless of when or if you use the 7 night certificate.

The 7 night electronic hotel certificate expires in 1 year, though Marriott currently will extend them for 1 additional year if you contact them.

You don’t need to choose the hotel at the time of a nights+miles redemption.

The certificate must be used at one property for 7 consecutive nights.

You can have the certificate issued in anyone’s name.

You can upgrade your hotel certificate by paying the difference in points later on. For example if you wanted 7 nights at the category 7 Renaissance Tel Aviv Hotelyou would need 330K Marriott or 110K Starpoints for that stay and you would get 157K miles. If you wanted 7 nights at the tier 3 Ritz-Carlton Herzliyayou would need 420K Marriott or 140K Starpoints for that stay and you would get 157K miles.

If you book a 7 night stay and cancel it, many agents will refund 45K Marriott points (15K Starpoints) for returning the 7 night stay certificate, but not all agents will do that, so you may need to HUCA.

It’s worth noting that there is also a 5 night hotel plus points package, but it’s officially intended for timeshare owners. Most Marriott reps won’t sell it to regular members, but some might if you play enough HUCA by calling them at 800-321-7396.

Hotel Category

Starpoints required for 7 nights and 132K United miles or 120K miles with other airlines

Marriott Rewards required for 7 nights and 132K United miles or 120K miles with other airlines

Marriott Category 1

90,000

270,000

Marriott Category 2

90,000

270,000

Marriott Category 3

90,000

270,000

Marriott Category 4

90,000

270,000

Marriott Category 5

90,000

270,000

Marriott Category 6

100,000

300,000

Marriott Category 7

110,000

330,000

Marriott Category 8

120,000

360,000

Marriott Category 9

130,000

390,000

Ritz Tier 1

140,000

420,000

Ritz Tier 2

140,000

420,000

Ritz Tier 3

140,000

420,000

Ritz Tier 4

180,000

540,000

Ritz Tier 5

180,000

540,000

You can also earn Starpoints on the Chase Marriott Rewards® Premier Credit Card.Click Hereto get more details on this card and compare to other hotel cards!

Where have you made your favorite Starwood/Marriott redemption? What’s on your SPG redemption dream list? Hit the comments!

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ninjaleh

does this count toward chase 5/24?

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March 21, 2018 4:28 pm

Dan

Nope!

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March 21, 2018 4:32 pm

chaim

do barclays ,bofa, and capital one business cards count toward 5/24?

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March 21, 2018 7:12 pm

mergs

Am i reading correctly?? This won’t count as one of the 5 cc’s in 2 years for chase??

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March 21, 2018 11:05 pm

chaim

only the business which has the limited time offer not the personal that counts i think

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March 22, 2018 12:28 am

dude

can you get these points if you have had this card previously

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March 21, 2018 4:36 pm

Anon

Can I get the signup bonus on a personal card if I have a business card? Also, can I open another business card on a different business EIN?

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March 21, 2018 4:57 pm

Avi

When using ‘cash and points award’ is the 5th night still free? or only regular award night (points only)

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March 21, 2018 5:44 pm

yes

can you get spg points on skyteam flights credited to your delta account ,on top of the skymiles you are already getting ? and how much points per dollar?can you add this to the post?thanks

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March 21, 2018 7:11 pm

Avi

Thinking of exploiting the BA transfer bonus, 90 Starwood points into 162 Avios with the package. Since I need it only for NYC to MIA or PBI on American, how do you view these route’s award availability? is it worth the transfer? (certificate not useful for me)

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